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Navigating the AI Roller Coaster: A Product Engineer’s Guide to Efficiency The past year has felt like a high-speed roller coaster. Every week, a “mind-blowing” AI model or application launches, promising to revolutionize how we work. For developers, this creates a phenomenon known as the Paradox of Choice. With so many tools—GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, and Claude Code—it is easy to succumb to decision fatigue. When building an application — from the frontend UI to the backend logic and database schema — the secret to staying productive isn’t jumping to every new tool the day it launches to reap it’s benefit. Instead, the real differentiator is how you manage context. The quality of the application you build is directly tied to the quality of the context you provide. ...

It’s wild to think about how a simple home computer—a machine that could barely run a text editor or a small 2D game—used to amaze us. Now, we’ve got Artificial Intelligence (AI) quietly handling tasks in our everyday devices, from suggesting which movie to watch next to helping doctors spot illnesses faster. It’s easy to forget just how rapidly AI has grown because so much of it happens behind the scenes. But if you peek under the hood, you’ll see that training those clever models and keeping them running is neither cheap nor straightforward. ...

The technical interview process in the software industry is broken. As someone who has been on both sides of the interview table, I’ve noticed a concerning trend: companies are testing candidates on complex algorithmic problems that rarely appear in day-to-day work. The Current State Picture this: You’re a seasoned developer with years of experience building scalable applications, writing clean code, and solving real business problems. You apply for a position, and what do you face in the coding challenge? Questions about implementing a Red-Black tree, solving complex dynamic programming problems, or optimizing an algorithm to find the nth Fibonacci number. ...

Just a little post to brag about 😉 1MB Club is a growing group of people who are running websites less than 1mb in (unzipped)size. Read more about them by clicking on the name. Submit your entries here if you want to join the club. It’s super easy with git send-mail.

Yayy!! 🎉🎉🎉 I am finally a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer(CKAD). Hello Kubernetes, my friend My first encounter with Kubernetes was at finleap connect. I was building the frontend for Categorisation platform. The platform used supervised machine learning to categorize transactional data. The Backend and the BFF built on Python, and the Frontend written with React/Redux stack. The platform gets deployed to finleap cloud using kubernetes, something I didn’t knew at the time. I wrote my first lines of python using flask as well to create the BFF. ...